Want a walk down Milwaukee Memory Lane?
(from Election 2000)
By ABC, Brian Ross "Nov. 13 — In Wisconsin, Al Gore leads George W. Bush by about 6,000 votes, but Republicans there have raised the possibility they will charge voter fraud, and Milwaukee’s Democratic district attorney is investigating. Dozens of students at Marquette University in Milwaukee are now openly boasting they voted more than once on Nov. 7.
“I realized it wouldn’t be impossible for me to vote again, so that’s what I did,” said one student who wished to remain nameless despite appearing on camera for World News Tonight. “I ended up voting four times that day for myself.”
It’s not known who got the extra votes, but students say officials did little to prevent it. “Their IDs weren’t being checked, proof of address wasn’t being checked,” said Michael McGraw, an editor for the Tribune campus newspaper, who says a canvass by Tribune reporters found 141 students who admitted to voting more than once — a felony offense. “It kind of struck them, like, ‘felony offense? What are you talking about? I just voted twice, that’s not a big deal.’”
Trading a Smoke for a Vote
Also under investigation are allegations that the Gore campaign used cigarettes to get residents of homeless shelters to vote. “Now that’s a criminal act if it’s proven,” says Milwaukee County District Attorney E. Michael McCann. “It’s bribery.”
The ABC affiliate in Milwaukee caught Gore campaign workers handing out cigarettes to homeless residents after they had been brought to a polling place to vote.
Connie Milstein, a major Gore supporter and the wife of a New York multimillionaire, told the station she had been asked by the Gore campaign to come to Milwaukee.
“Wisconsin is a very key state for the Democratic Party,” explained Milstein. “I’m here representing the Gore-Lieberman campaign.”
The district attorney says there is evidence the Democratic group went to at least three homeless shelters, where residents said cigarettes were used to get them to vote.
Willy Jackson, who is currently staying at the Milwaukee Rescue Mission, voted for the first time. “To sell out for a pack of cigarettes,” he said. “That just don’t seem right.”
Today, outside her Park Avenue home in New York, Milstein said she had done nothing wrong. “I’m an ordinary Park Avenue matron.” She insisted she was in Milwaukee as “an ordinary campaign worker.” Milstein would not say who sent her to Milwaukee, and the Democratic Party maintains she went to the homeless shelters on her own."
http://abcnews.go.com/onair/WorldNewsTonight/wnt001113_Wisconsin_feature.html
Does Milwaukee have the same District Attorney? Maybe you can call his office and ask what happened in the Connie Milstein investigation. Ask if they've received complaints about illegal election activities this time around.
I think influencing, bribing mentally retarded residents, in the care of these nursing homes borders on abuse, don't you?
I think I will give her a call....